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A review by twicomb
Start Here: Draw 50 Ways To Be an Artist Without Trying by Moira Clinch
informative
inspiring
relaxing
5.0
TLDR: this is a great book if you want to learn how to draw but it seems scary. Check it out!
Light-hearted, helpful, and non-threatening: this is the trifecta you want if you're looking for a book to help ease you into the waters of sketching and drawing, especially if you want to do it intuitively and from your heart. This book delivers on all three. I've read/owned a lot of (too many? never!) similar books about "how to draw" from many different perspectives. This one is charming and will stick around on my shelf.
The author starts off slow, helping us see that just a few lines can make a drawing. There's a clever exercise involving graph paper that helps the aspiring artist think about animals (and objects) as pixel blocks, which is nowadays a very accessible idea for nearly everyone. But the book doesn't stop at basic concepts. It keeps going into sketching from real life, shading, perspective, and a lot of other meaty topics that will be interesting for people who have gone beyond the 101 basics. The author even gets into things like texture and patterns. In fact, the author is bubbling over with creative ideas - near the end, there's suggestions for doing art on shoes, on pebbles, on recipe cards. I love this energy!
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this eARC for unbiased review.
Light-hearted, helpful, and non-threatening: this is the trifecta you want if you're looking for a book to help ease you into the waters of sketching and drawing, especially if you want to do it intuitively and from your heart. This book delivers on all three. I've read/owned a lot of (too many? never!) similar books about "how to draw" from many different perspectives. This one is charming and will stick around on my shelf.
The author starts off slow, helping us see that just a few lines can make a drawing. There's a clever exercise involving graph paper that helps the aspiring artist think about animals (and objects) as pixel blocks, which is nowadays a very accessible idea for nearly everyone. But the book doesn't stop at basic concepts. It keeps going into sketching from real life, shading, perspective, and a lot of other meaty topics that will be interesting for people who have gone beyond the 101 basics. The author even gets into things like texture and patterns. In fact, the author is bubbling over with creative ideas - near the end, there's suggestions for doing art on shoes, on pebbles, on recipe cards. I love this energy!
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this eARC for unbiased review.